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> the merge of the government and corporations This is not plutarchy, the direction of control is going the other way.

This would be pointless to do for one person, and it would be very curious to see a government reject a massive funding stream from a swath of people like this.

Dude what?

Zhang, Yitang’s life at Purdue (Jan 1985-1991) T.T.Moh - https://www.math.purdue.edu/~ttm/ZhangYt.pdf kind of a wild document to exist...

Ok sure. The Home Secretary just banned new asylum seeker housing near schools and nurseries, fyi.

> No one said anything about "relative to his wealth bracket". Original post was "modest for a guy like that"

Arguably vacancy taxes are just Georgism with extra steps

> Just a reminder "gay panic defense." is still used in court today in the USA Can you cite a case in the last 5 years? Can you cite a case in the last 20 years where the jury didn…

referral bonuses from a few people via who's hiring

I mean the salary difference is a few hundred k, so this all just reads like cope.

Couldn't think of a more incorrect diagnosis if I tried. State government budgets have been ballooning for the last decade; but political leaders don't give a shit about tracking o…

Ok, but me and my buddies think you use tenuous judgement to characterize words as violence, and enable people to use physical violence in “retaliation”. That’s a bright line viole…

> In short, despite the article's somewhat negative tone overall, I don't think anything described is actually a negative thing I think the main thing to criticize, is that 1. Bank…

I guess this case is especially interesting and novel because of how the government has deputized banks as ersatz law enforcement, and banks have delegated decision making to SPLC …

there were talks for the US government to take a large equity stake as part of a bailout, but those fell through

I’m really surprised I didn’t get auto-duped. Usually submission of the same url gets forwarded to the old post if it’s recent enough…